"What?" Huo Qinglin's face turned dark and terrifying the mont he heard her say she had fallen for soone else. The handso features were now overshadowed by fury, his voice stripped of the tenderness from earlier and replaced with rage: "Banxia, are you playing for a fool?"
Lin Banxia knew he would definitely fly into a rage on the spot, but she wasn't afraid. Her tone remained calm, as though indifferent: "I didn't expect you to propose to in front of so many people. Qinglin, I'm truly sorry. I originally planned to use this opportunity to have a proper talk with you. But you... sigh. If I'd known you would propose in front of such a crowd, I should have told you about this earlier."
"Lin Banxia, you don't want to marry ?" Huo Qinglin's anger exploded in an instant. He couldn't have imagined that Lin Banxia would dare to reject him.
Of course, losing face was a small matter; losing the property deed for the pear garden was sothing that could kill him.
"Yes, it's not that I don't want to marry you. It's that... I truly have soone I like more, Qinglin. Surely you can understand, right?" Lin Banxia feigned a conflicted expression as she delivered yet another refusal.
Originally, she had planned to wait for Huo Qinglin to present her with the proposal ring, only to throw it directly into the sea. But after so thought, she realized the ring must have cost him a lot of money. Throwing it away—would he make her compensate for it?
So, she ultimately decided not to throw the ring. Turning him down in public was already humiliating enough for him.
"Who is it? Lin Banxia, besides , who would dare to marry you?" Huo Qinglin's fury had reached its peak. The thought of the fat prize slipping out of his grasp made every inch of his aura nacing.
Lin Banxia hadn't anticipated that Huo Qinglin would actually dare to interrogate her like this. Had he not bothered to ask himself whether he was worth her disregarding everything just to marry him?
Shaless people like him were nothing short of nauseating.
"Second Young Master Huo, let be honest with you—actually, the other person doesn't even know I like him. I've been secretly in love with him all along." Lin Banxia's words were like salting the wound of Huo Qinglin's already injured pride.
Huo Qinglin's face turned a mottled shade of green and red.
To think that Lin Banxia would reject his proposal simply because of a one-sided crush! Was he really that unworthy?
"Lin Banxia, do you know the consequences of toying with ? You'll regret this," Huo Qinglin declared in a fit of rage, a mocking smile curling his lips as if everything were under his control.
Lin Banxia's heart lurched tightly for a mont. Without warning, she thought of the Huo Qinglin from her previous life—his indifference, his disdain—it had already inflicted the most agonizing wounds on her mory.
"I won't regret it. In this lifeti, I will only marry the man I love most, and that man is not you." Lin Banxia raised her chin slightly, her answer resolute and unwavering.
For once, she felt an unrestrained sense of liberation. These words—she had long wanted to hurl them at him in her previous life but had never summoned the courage.
Today, she was going to throw everything—the things that should be said and the things that shouldn't—right in his face.
Huo Qinglin's expression had surpassed the limitations of unpleasant; it was absolutely ghastly. A murderous intent flashed fleetingly in his cold eyes.
His large hand clenched tightly; even his knuckles cracked audibly. If it weren't for the crowd watching, he might have strangled this ungrateful woman here and now.
To think she dared to harbor feelings for another man?
If he ever found out the identity of the man she secretly liked, he would shred him to pieces.
"Banxia, you once said that I was the person you loved most. Have you forgotten that?" Huo Qinglin was unwilling to let this golden opportunity slip through his fingers just like that, convinced there was still room to salvage the situation.
"Won are capricious, didn't you know?" Lin Banxia smiled. The light glinted off her eyes and her upturned lips, making her beauty radiantly unforgettable in that mont.
"Other won might be, but not you, Banxia. I know you better than anyone. We were so happy together once..."
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